Fire crews have remained at the former Hunter Group skip hire site off Queens Mill Road in Lockwood since Tuesday morning after council environmental health officers noticed wisps of smoke coming from the top of a huge pile of shredded waste containing plastic, wood and paper.

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Environment Agency officers and council staff have met the new owner. The EA said it needed to give the new owner a reasonable amount of time to “bring the site into compliance” before enforcement was considered.

The fire at the waste site in Scout Hill burned for many weeks. Fire crews were at the scene every day, and the total clean up cost was put at more than half a million pounds.